Ep 3 - Napoleon's War Machine

Last episode we saw how the notables of Palestine cleverly adjusted to the demands of modernity, emerging as winners in the Ottoman reform era. But just as the sky parted above the urban elite, storm clouds began to gather over the fellahin of the countryside. This, then, is the ... Show More

This interview originally aired on "Stories from Palestine", a great podcast where the host, Kristal, uncovers the mysteries of contemporary Palestine through interviews with Palestinian experts.In this interview, Kristal and I discuss the emergence of Palestinian identity.Enjoy! ... Show More

The period of the Tanzimat - a time of rapid, relentless, state-sponsored modernization - ran from 1840 to 1876. In less than four decades, a highly decentralized empire that stretched across three continents made a great leap toward becoming a modern nation-state.Like all social ... Show More

The history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine is often described as too complicated to learn, and so when looking at events that occur in contemporary Palestine, everything lacks necessary context. In this episode of the Let's Talk Palestine Podcast, we try to give you a simpl ... Show More

Zena Agha and host Yara Hawari discuss how decades of colonial mappings, first by British imperialism and then by the Israeli colonial project, have undermined Palestinian self-determination and explore how Palestinians are fighting back. Support the show 

In this episode I have interviewed Gabriel Polley, winner of the Ibrahim Dakkak Award for the best essay published in 2021 by the Jerusalem Quarterly.Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in ... Show More

من بين بقاع الأرض اختاروا فلسطين، لتكون أرضا تتخلص فيه بريطانيا من أزماتها الداخلية وتحقق فيها أهدافها الخارجية، وكان لها ذلك باستعمار فلسطين وتوطين اليهود فيها..من هنا بدأت القصة وبهذا سرقت الأرض. قصة فلسطين كيف ضاعت شاهدها في السلسلة الوثائقية أرشيفهم وتاريخنا Hosted on Acast. ... Show More

تراخت قبضة الدولة العثمانية على البلاد، وانتشر الفساد في أركان الدولة، ليجد اليهود موضع قدم لهم اتسعت بحماية بريطانية وتواطؤ أجنبي وفساد إداري عثماني، فتصبح أراضي فلسطين في قبضة اليهود الأجانب.تعرف على قصة استيلاء اليهود على أراضي فلسطين في هذه الحلقة من السلسلة الوثائقية أرشيفهم ... Show More

Noa Shaindlinger's Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hop (Edinburgh UP, 2023) explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives. With a focus on the city of Jaffa and its ... Show More

We are going to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most controversial subjects of your time. And in true fashion, we're going to try our best to avoid bias. This will be a multi-part series. In this first episode, we discuss the history of the Jews and Arabs. We start from ... Show More

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) the book by Louis Fishman looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This work presents an innovative analysis of the strugg ... Show More

We discussed Rashid Khalidi's work as an editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, as the President of the Middle East Studies Association, and as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.**** ABOUT THIS IS NOT A WATE ... Show More